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While the Sword was intelligent (in a treasonable way), Captain Midnight combines the spirit of a college quarterback with the sagacity of a Pinkerton operative. Perhaps it is unfair to suggest that a streak of anti-intellectualism runs through this program and its fellows, but the blackest villains are generally smarter than the heroes, and considerably more sophisticated...
...Pinkerton men waited until Jockey Eddie Arcaro had ridden C. V. Whitney's filly, First Flight, down the six-furlong straightaway in a near-record 1:08 3/5. Then one of the agents stepped up to Baldy. "How would you like to talk to Mr. O'Grady at the Pinkerton Agency?" Blurted Baldy in hurt indignation: "Pinkerton? O'Grady? What am I? A bookmaker?" But he was not indignant enough to want to meet O'Grady-he vanished through the nearest gate...
Dirty Business. Jerome Vincent O'Grady, 38, a personable Manhattan lawyer and former G-man who spends most of his working life at the New York tracks but never places a bet, is boss of Pinkerton's New York Racing Service. Since April, when the racing season started, O'Grady and his 300-odd P-men have ejected, or warned, about 500 bookies at Belmont, Jamaica, Aqueduct and Saratoga. For this and other services, New York's racing associations pay the Pinkerton agency about $1,000,000 a year...
...investment is worthwhile: by discouraging bookmakers from plying their trade at the track, the Pinkerton men increase the take at the pari-mutuel windows (average day's total: $1,800,000). And by hunting down touts-who start most of the rumors about fixed races-the Pinkerton men help maintain public confidence in the New York tracks...
...help The Jockey Club keep horse racing "clean," Pinkerton men have also investigated 1,650 owners and trainers, photographed or fingerprinted 43,000 grooms, exercise boys and jockeys, and photographed 31,000 thoroughbreds. Uniformed policemen patrol the stable area against pyromaniacs, horse-dopers and gamblers 24 hours...